the State Historical Society of Missouri
![This 1778 map of the Illinois Country by Thomas Hutchins depicts the region as it appeared during Israel Dodge’s lifetime. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-06/1.%20Israel%20Dodge.jpg?itok=SHnGEpYM "This 1778 map of the Illinois Country by Thomas Hutchins depicts the region as it appeared during Israel Dodge’s lifetime. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]")
Israel Dodge (1760–1806)
Israel Dodge exemplified the adventurous spirit of a young, expanding United States at the turn of the nineteenth century.
![James Eads. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0004-1016]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-06/1.%20James%20B.%20Eads.jpg?itok=FRY6tsZ7 "James Eads. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0004-1016]")
James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887)
Born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on May 23, 1820, James Buchanan Eads became an engineer of great renown, remarkable for the variety of his accomplishments.
J. Wayman Williams
J. Wayman Williams was a professional civil engineer and photographer.
David P. Billington
David P. Billington was the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Princeton University.
![Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-06/1.%20Oliver%20Cromwell%20Cox.jpg?itok=NSlOEs6I "Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]")
Oliver Cromwell Cox (1901–1974)
Oliver Cromwell Cox was arguably one of the most controversial mid-twentieth-century social scientists.
![The Figure 8 roller coaster at Lakeside Park, added in 1907, was a “huge reversing spiral” in which cars rushed down a half-mile curving track with “three figure eights in a descent of 50 feet.” [Courtesy of the Joplin Historical & Mineral Museum]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-06/1.%20Figure%208%20Roller%20Coaster%20Lakeside%20Park%20Joplin%20Museum%20Complex.JPG?itok=cxTmvBCb "The Figure 8 roller coaster at Lakeside Park, added in 1907, was a “huge reversing spiral” in which cars rushed down a half-mile curving track with “three figure eights in a descent of 50 feet.” [Courtesy of the Joplin Historical & Mineral Museum]")
Lakeside Park (Jasper County, Missouri)
“Once the most important and popular play place of the Tri-State district,” Lakeside Park in Jasper County, Missouri, opened to the public in 1895.
![A cathedral mosaic of Father Sebastien Louis Meurin performing a baptism. [Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/1.%20Father%20Meurin_0.jpg?itok=0mN01o6l "A cathedral mosaic of Father Sebastien Louis Meurin performing a baptism. [Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis]")
Sebastien Louis Meurin (1707–1777)
Sebastien Louis Meurin served as the parish priest in Ste. Genevieve from 1764 through 1768 and conducted the first Catholic services in the settlement of St. Louis from 1766 to 1769.
![Arnold Krekel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder und Hammer! The German Experience in St. Louis Records, S0941-079]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-04/1.%20Arnold%20Krekel.jpg?itok=R-vBWfhT "Arnold Krekel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder und Hammer! The German Experience in St. Louis Records, S0941-079]")
Arnold Krekel (1815–1888)
Arnold Krekel, who served from 1865 to 1888 as a US judge for the Western District of Missouri, was born on March 12, 1815, in Langenfeld, near Düsseldorf, in Prussia.
![Paul Follenius. [State Historical Society of Missouri, William G. Bek Photograph Collection, P0586]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-04/1.%20Paul%20Follenius.jpg?itok=RITtCWx9 "Paul Follenius. [State Historical Society of Missouri, William G. Bek Photograph Collection, P0586]")
Paul Follenius (1799–1844)
Paul Follenius, the cofounder with Friedrich Muench of the Giessen Emigration Society and the third son of a lawyer at the Hes
Adolf E. Schroeder
Adolf E. Schroeder was a professor of German Studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia and a leader in reestablishing the Missouri Folklore Society in 1977.